On Feb 17, 2012 7:24 AM, "Fons Adriaensen" <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:02AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > "Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again." > > > > But you ignored it: > > > > "I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM" > > I did not ignore it, I gave some reasons why that was > not an option at that time. And those reasons are in > line with advice posted on this list by people who are > supposed to know what they are talking about. > And its been explained that without versions deps (rarely used due to maintenance headaches) updating your database with -Sy without running a full update is not supported. pacman cannot handle that, period. The correct way to install packages on an out-of-date system is to NOT update your database. You may need an out-of-date mirror or to manually download from mirror archives.
